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Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reviving-the-dead dept.

TweetZilla writes "Good review if you are a fan of BeOS. Not ready for regular users but tinkerers will probably love it to death. OSNews is carrying the story."

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  1. Re:What the hell is the status of BeOS? by cgreuter · · Score: 5, Informative
    I keep seeing stuff about new BeOS variants on the street, but the most "official" thing I have heard is that Palm owns it.

    As I understand it, we have several different variants:

    1. BeOS Professional Edition is the commercial version of BeOS. It now belongs to Palm but (IIRC) someone still has the right to sell copies through an older agreement with Be.
    2. BeOS Personal Edition is the free-as-in-beer version of BeOS that you could download from Be. There are still mirrors of it and AFAIK, you can still legally put it up for download. It requires a Windows or Linux installation to work.
    3. The BeOS Developer Edition above is apparently a release of BeOS Max Edition. This is basically BeOS Personal Edition with patches applied, new drivers and various open-source contributions. It's maintained by volunteers.
    4. BlueOS is basically a Linux distribution with a BeOS compatibility layer. I'm not sure how complete it is.
    5. OpenBeOS is an open-source re-implementation of BeOS. AIUI, they're basically replacing BeOS components one by one.
    6. Atheos is a completely different open-source OS that sort of resembles BeOS.
    7. Bill Hayden forked it and along with the Linux kernel, made a BeOS-compatible OS.

    And there you go.

    Note that I'm not really a BeOS enthusiast, so I may be wrong about some of these. However, that's what it looks like to me.